TALKS
Want to be happy? Be grateful - Brother David Steindl-rast
Less stuff, More happiness - Graham Hill
Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
Your Elusive Creative Genius - Elizabeth Gilbert
BOOKS
If you can't get the physical copies right now, I'm sure you can download digital or audiobook versions.
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Apt title. Easily relatable and actionable advice as to how to face many levels of discomfort and grow immensely from it.
Life Visioning by Michael Beckwith
Absolute Game Changer. The audiobook is amazing as well.
A New Earth: Awakening to your Lifeʻs Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
It is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. I usually read it once a year.
Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
It's as if she is sitting inside of your head and describing what she sees and hears. Then, she tells you how to use it all as the path to enlightenment.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Dripping with beauty and relevance.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
An absolute paradigm shift. A desperately needed one.
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
I find Brene Brownʻs communication style to be incredibly grounded, raw, funny, honest and relatable.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Each successive paragraph takes another hook out of us that is holding us back from making the art that wants nothing more than to manifest through each and every one of us. Itʻs playful, humorous, raw, honest, simply profound and bombastically motivational. It helps to re-educate us to have fun!
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Beautiful, inspiring, motivational and simplistically profound. A fantastic adventure story filled with infinite wisdom.
The Essential Rumi
Each page, each line is like pouring a warm soothing balm on a sensitive wound. The relevance of these 13th century thoughts and words for our lives today is absolutely remarkable. The poetry is dripping with beauty.
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
To witness the devotion to the divine inside of this manʻs incredible life story never ceases to humble and inspire me.
Conversations with God: Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch
After years of spiritual confusion, irritation, fear and even apathy, this was the first spiritual book that ever drew me to it. It was my first entrance into what has become one of the greatest adventures of my life thus far; the revelation of my/our personal relationship with the divine. After this, I devoured the entire series.
QUOTES
“Fear is misdirected attention." -Michael Beckwith
“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” -Mark Twain
Speculation is the source of all suffering." -Thom Knoles
"Nature will not have us fret and fume. Our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless. Only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” -Eckart Tolle, from “A New Earth.”
"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. Weʻre just quick to hit the snooze button." -Brené Brown, from “The Gifts of Imperfection.”
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” -Brené Brown, from “The Gifts of Imperfection.”
“If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.” -Lao Tzu, from “Tao Te Ching.”
"Nothing heals like pain." -Wade Robson
"No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow. People wish to be settled; Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"There is nothing you have to do." -Dennis Robson (My late Father)
"The nature of our experience is determined by the quality of the questions we ask." -Michael Beckwith
"All improvement in your life is about letting go of something. It's not about gaining anything." -Michael Beckwith
“When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
"No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” -The Alchemist
"The journey of a thousand miles commenced with a single step." -Lao Tzu
"Established in being, perform action." -Bahagavad Gita.
I am wishing you all infinite health, love and the revelation of your fulfillment.
All my love, Wade.
